The way I shoot video of me on my horse is to setup my camera on a tripod, zoom set to wide angle, and just ride. Than I use power director to first manually remove all the video where I'm not visible because I've ridden outside the cameras view. Next I decide which of the remaining video to keep, and then I use the incredibly wonderful "video crop" power tool to make it look like somebody manned the camera. Here's a sample of the finished product:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9HiXbp6FDM

Almost 100% of my finished video has gone through video crop. However, the most time consuming part of the process is removing the video in which nothing is happening because I've ridden into the "corners" to the right and left and close to the camera.

So what I would really like is a feature or even a stand alone program that ONLY takes out footage in which nothing is changing. I'd like it to allow me to specify what section of the frame to check for change. I'd like an option to tell it how sensitive to be, and how long to allow for no change before it cuts footage. I don't want it to make any other decisions - it doesn't have to worry about how long the finished video will be. It doesn't have to make a movie. Just take out the parts where I'm not in it, and leave everything else to me.

Thanks

Mike